A V.C. WINNER.
HEROISM AT ZEEBRUGGE. “PROFESSED INVALID’S” DEED. (Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, March, 24. A modern Dick Wittinlgton was described by Sir Frank Benson at a City livery Club luncheon. He told of a man who., until he reached the age of 30, found everything unpleasant—life gave him headache. At the outbreak of the war he was afraid to join up for fear the guns would give him a headache. ultimately he found himself at Zeebrugge in charge of a mine-sweeper. His job was to set a smoke screen and carry off the esurvivors from a ship that blocked the mouth of a canal. He carried a small black cat on his shoulder, did the job, and got the V.C. When the King asked what was his profession before the war he replied that he was ashamed to say he was a professed invalid. Sir Frank did not divulge the young man’s identity, as be was a close relative.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 141, 26 March 1928, Page 5
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